Then those young judges will retire well after they are a hundred years old by reaping the benefits of stem cell research, faith will slowly erode in America, and we’ll be living in a Star Trek universe in no time.

...[in a] 2005 New Yorker article, he [Chuck Grassely, R-IA] told Jeffrey Toobin, “Filibusters are designed so that the minority can bring about compromise on legislation. But you can’t compromise a Presidential nomination. It’s yes or no. So filibusters on nominations are an abuse of our function under the Constitution to advise and consent.”

That was then.
This is now:

I will not vote for Dawn Johnsen and I will support a filibuster because she is so extreme in her views on that point.

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”—Kurt Vonnegut